perspective
PERSPECTIVE
s. scenographia (of scenic paintings Vitr. 1 2 2 where it is explained as consisting in frontis et laterum abscedentium adumbratio ad circinique centrum omnium linearum responsus): ea ars pictoris qua efficit ut quaedam eminere in opere quaedam recessisse credamus (Quint. 2 17 21). In Vitr. 7 praef. 11 we find the following description of painting in perspective; Democritus and Anaxagoras wrote on this subject of (scenic) perspective Democritus et Anaxagoras de eadem re scripserunt quemadmodum oporteat ad aciem oculorum radiorumque extensionem certo loco centro constituto lineas ratione naturali respondere uti de incerta re certae imagines aedificiorum in scenarum picturis redderent speciem et quae in directis planisque frontibus sint figurata alia abscedentia alia prominentia esse videantur. According to the rules of perspective ut ad aciem oculorum radiorumque extensionem certo loco centro constituto lineae ratione naturali respondeat (after Vitr. 7 praef. 11): *scenographice.
s. scenographia (of scenic paintings Vitr. 1 2 2 where it is explained as consisting in frontis et laterum abscedentium adumbratio ad circinique centrum omnium linearum responsus): ea ars pictoris qua efficit ut quaedam eminere in opere quaedam recessisse credamus (Quint. 2 17 21). In Vitr. 7 praef. 11 we find the following description of painting in perspective; Democritus and Anaxagoras wrote on this subject of (scenic) perspective Democritus et Anaxagoras de eadem re scripserunt quemadmodum oporteat ad aciem oculorum radiorumque extensionem certo loco centro constituto lineas ratione naturali respondere uti de incerta re certae imagines aedificiorum in scenarum picturis redderent speciem et quae in directis planisque frontibus sint figurata alia abscedentia alia prominentia esse videantur. According to the rules of perspective ut ad aciem oculorum radiorumque extensionem certo loco centro constituto lineae ratione naturali respondeat (after Vitr. 7 praef. 11): *scenographice.
adj. *scenographicus (σκηνογραφικός).
perspective (subs.): scēnogrăphia (the art of architectural designing according to perspective; as distinguished from orthographia, the drawing of a mere "elevation" of a building; or ichnographia, of the ground plan): Vitr. 1, 2, 2. Phr.: to draw in p., ita res pingere (designare) ut alia abscedentia alia eminentia esse videantur (cf. Vitr. 7, pref. § 11: also, id. 1, 2, 2; in both of which places an explanation of the theory of perspective is given, q. v.). As tech. term, it may be necessary to use perspectiva, sc. ars.